[HODGSON, JOHN EDMUND]. History of Aeronautics in Great Britain from the Earliest Times to the Latter half of the Nineteenth Century, with 150 Illustrations from Contemporary Sources, Chronology, Bibliography, etc. London: Humphrey Milford, 1924.
Hardcover. First edition [limited edition of 1000 copies]. Cloth-bound and presented in original pictorial dust jacket. Thick quarto (In-4°) (290 x 200 mm), pp. [xxii], 436. English text. Printed on quality paper. Bound in original dark blue cloth with gilt medallion on the front cover and lettering on the spine in gilt. Top edge gilt, rough cut fore edge and bottom edge. Initial and terminal blanks plus half-title present. 150 figured illustrations including a frontispiece, 13 of these in colour. Side-notes and footnotes. Appendices and index at rear. Condition: FINE. An immaculate copy with a rare and excellently preserved dust jacket.
Notes: First edition, limited to 1000 copies, scarcely obtainable presented in a dust jacket. A chronological narrative paying attention to the lives and characters of the pioneers of ballooning and flight and to the technical aspect of there work, across 436 pages with 150 color and black and white plates from contemporary sources with many reproduced from the Cuthbert Collection.
